Cold Sunday morning – let’s warm up with some music from Texas. Here’s Butch Hancock And here’s Texas Tornadoes performing Mr. Hancock’s best known tune, She Never Spoke Spanish to Me.
All posts by “Eugene Knapik”
Meet me with your black drawers on….
Jackie Richardson sang Meet me with your Black Drawers On tonight at the Salah Bachir show, fronting the Toronto All-Star Big Band – a show-stopper, and just one of many highlights at this gala to support the Bachir Yerex Family Dialysis Centre at St. Joseph’s… Read More
27th Street Tales
Mr. Grizzly has been sleeping in the Imagination Station. He decided to stretch and walk around the yard before the snow gets too deep. O’er yonder, Cowboy Bob crosses the planes on his trusty horse, but the trail is getting snowed in and Bob is… Read More
Snowing all day
It’s been snowing all day around 27th Street. The roads are pretty bad. I had a close call driving on the Queensway, even though I have snow tires on my Forester. I touched my breaks and I guess there was a patch of ice under… Read More
Button accordion for a Saturday morning
Since I immersed myself in clawhammer banjo music I haven’t listened to nearly so much button accordion music as I used to, and haven’t played my squeezeboxes so much either. That doesn’t mean I love those musical traditions any less. Let’s listen to a taste… Read More
Big Night Tonight
The Big One – benefit for The Bachir Yerex Family Dialysis Centre at St. Joseph’s Health Centre Toronto is tonight. Going to be amazing!
Off to play Go…
I’m off to play some Go this evening so I’ll leave you with a little something to listen to. Here’s Kilby Snow playing autoharp and singing Troubles….
A dog’s life
Good Morning Long Branch – Fresh dog biscuits going in the oven 7:30 am
The only thing blocking me from popping these oatmeal, bacon, peanut butter and parmesean dog biscuits into the oven is 145lbs of George! Good Morning from 27th Street!
Whiskey Before Breakfast
I’ve completed a set of 15 new paintings which will be exhibited at Yumart here in Toronto in April. Here’s a sneak peak at one of the new works. I titled some of the paintings in this group, including this one, after fiddle tunes. This… Read More